As his trial got under way in Fairfax, Va., a Pakistani man prosecutors claim bore a grudge against the CIA pleaded innocent Monday to a shooting spree outside the spy agency's gates four years ago. Mir Aimal Kasi's pleas of innocent to murder and nine other charges came after Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge J. Howe Brown denied public defender Richard Goemann's request for a delay in the trial. Goemann last week filed a suit in U.S. District Court in Washington, claiming he has been denied access to documents he needed in preparing his defense.

Furniture moving: Furniture-rental company Cort Business Services Corp. said it agreed to be acquired by a group including its managers and the investment firm Bruckmann Rosser Sherill & Co. for $363 million in stock plus $90 million in debt. The group will acquire Cort, based in Fairfax, Va., for $24 a share in cash and $2.50 a share in preferred stock, a 58 percent premium above Thursday's closing price of $16.75 a share.

Dorothy Barr Agne, 98, an organist, singer, composer, poet and teacher, owned and operated the Evanston Conservatory of Music for 40 years. She taught thousands of children and adults privately and in classes. A resident of Fairfax, Va., since her retirement in 1977, she died Monday in the Commonwealth Care Center in Fairfax. Mrs. Agne was the daughter of Rev. Norman B. Barr, longtime pastor of Mt. Olivet Church and Institute. She studied at the Palozzi-Froebel Teachers College, the American Conservatory of Music and the Chicago Conservatory of Music, as well as at the Northfield Seminary in Massachusetts.

Two nursing homes are in risk of losing their licenses after state officials found patients had been burned by uncovered radiators at one facility and nurses at the other allegedly carried a patient back to bed without determining if he were still alive and in need of aid. The Illinois Department of Public Health said Friday that it had taken initial steps to revoke the licenses of Bethune Plaza, 4537 S. Drexel Blvd., and the Fairfax, 3601 S. Harlem Ave., in west suburban Berwyn.

The Elgin Unit School District 46 board has decided to exclude children living in a Bartlett subdivision from a new elementary school within sight of their homes in favor of busing them to another school 4 miles away. Residents of the Fairfax subdivision say they bought their homes on the assurance that their children would attend the $6 million Prairieview school when it was built just across the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Co. freight tracks. But the school board decided to take an advisory committee's recommendation to leave the Fairfax children at Wayne Elementary School, unless another solution can be found by April 17. Fairfax homeowners say they were told by Lexington Development Corp.